Home Stuff | Embrace This Table

There's many things we'd like to embrace. Loved ones. Children (our own, of course). Maybe even the car if we escape a narrow scrape due to the power of four wheel driving. But we'd never thought about embracing a table. Until now.

Created by designer John Green, it was originally created back when he was a doe-eyed student (don't quote us on the doe-eyed thing, we're paraphrasing). An award winning piece of furniture, it's a two piece item that's meant to slide together, 'embracing' each other in perfect harmony.

The 21st century version of 'Ebony and ivory', if that song was re-imagined as a great table instead of a low point in the careers of two musical legends. £285,Slowdownjoe

Mick And Keith: What We've Learned (So Far)

Golf's In A Hole – Can It Ever Recover?

With memberships down, equipment sales in a hole and sports like cycling taking over, Tim Lewis asks whether the “good walk spoiled” can be resuscitated as a participatory sport, or is it the end of the fairway for golf?

Inside Broadmoor: Home To Britain's Most Violent Criminals

What Makes an American 'American'?

After 15 years in Los Angeles, Esquire’s Anglo-Indian-in-America, Sanjiv Bhattacharya, has become our American in America. And he’s got the certificate to prove it. Is he one of them now? Or will he always be one of us? Can he be both? Is he neither? There’s nothing like pledging allegiance to make a man question whose side he’s on

Alone: How It Feels To Spend A Week In Isolation

Hard to believe in our hyper-connected world, but there was a time when solitude was part of the every day human experience. On the cusp of 30, Esquire's Sam Parker realised he couldn’t remember the last time he’d been truly alone – if, indeed, he ever had. How would he cope with seven days in the wild, cut-off from humanity, and without even his Instagram feed for company?